“Plant Healer is the only publication I’ve seen in my long career that captures the wild diversity of herbalism in North America.” –Paul Bergner

“Plant Healer is the most attractive journal I have ever had the pleasure to view.”–David Winston

The Plant Healer Compendium is a sampling of Plant Healer Magazine’s 2017 articles, 445 info-packed b&w pages by 30 authors, selected from the year’s over 1200 color digital pages tailored to the herbalist student and experienced practitioner. They represent over 20 columns and departments, covering everything from history and plant lore to materia medica, medicine making, and clinical skills.

Previously, each Fall we would print the entire four issues in a giant 2 volume set, and sold them only to existing magazine subscriber members.But lately, the issues have grown so large and printing costs so high, that it is no longer affordable.Instead, every year now we will be releasing a special Compendium book featuring an exciting sampling of full-length Plant Healer articles.And these Compendiums will be sold to the general public as well as to our regular subscribers, providing a taste of what our readers so enjoy, in a softcover volume that you can hold inyour hands.

Our treasured Plant Healer authors are among the deepest thinking teachers, healers, conservationists, growers, and artists, and visionaries of our time. Sections on herbal traditions contribute to our evolving story, radical herbalism and diversity address issues vital to the survival of folk herbalism, and topics like constitutions, actions, cultivation, and botany, keep the project rooted in practical tools and usable techniques. Here is an opportunity to be entertained and enriched, while learning more about healing not only our bodies and spirits, but our culture and the land.

The Plant Healer Compendium is a sampling of Plant Healer Magazine’s 2017 articles, 445 info-packed b&w pages by 30 authors, selected from the year’s over 1200 color digital pages tailored to the herbalist student and experienced practitioner. They represent over 20 columns and departments, covering everything from history and plant lore to materia medica, medicine making, and clinical skills.

Previously, each Fall we would print the entire four issues in a giant 2 volume set, and sold them only to existing magazine subscriber members.But lately, the issues have grown so large and printing costs so high, that it is no longer affordable.Instead, every year now we will be releasing a special Compendium book featuring an exciting sampling of full-length Plant Healer articles.And these Compendiums will be sold to the general public as well as to our regular subscribers, providing a taste of what our readers so enjoy, in a softcover volume that you can hold inyour hands.

A full table of contents follows below this announcement poster that we hope you will share:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Jesse Wolf Hardin: HerbKin: Roles, Labels,, & What We Really Do

Mathew Wood: The History, Growth, & Resurgence of Herbalism

Paul Bergner: Questioning Our Teachers

Jesse Wolf Hardin: The Portal

Guido Masé: Stories of The Silvani: Plant Spirits of The Dolomites

Dara Saville: Saxifrage & Orchid

Marija Helt: Plant & Fungi Friends in The San Juan Mountains

Peter McCoy; The Hunt For Medicinal Mushrooms

Sarah Baldwin: Legal Plants For Enhancing Consciousness

Sarah Anne Lawless; Solanaceae: A Monograph of Nightshade Medicine

Angela Justis: Made by a Child’s Hands: Herbal Gift Giving

Shana Lipner Grover:Brassicaceae

Phyllis Light: Herbs For Men’s Health

Julie James:Herbs For Abortion & Miscarriage Care

Wendy Hounsel: Cervical Dysplasia & Abnormal Pap Smears

Jim McDonald: Anti-Microbials

Thomas Easley: The Gut – Part II: Addressing The Stress Response

Susun S Weed: Harvesting Sustainably: Parts I-III

Wendy “Butter” Petty: Adapting Recipes For Wild Foods

Ryn Midura: Caffeine Herbs & Alternatives

Sean Donahue: Relaxing Tension: Letting Vitality Flow

Shana Lipner Grover:The Lamiaceae Family

Virginia Adi: Olfaction For The Herbalist

Angela Justis: Children’s Sleepy-Time Self Care

Katherine MacKinnon: Seed to Seed Cultivation

Matthew Wood:Treating Kidney Problems:

Shana Lipner Grover: Cactaceae: Gifts of The Desert

Marija Helt: Amanita Muscaria: The Flying Mushroom

Ilana Goldowitz Jimenez: Autumn Crocus, Colchicine & The FDA

Sean Donahue: Hawthorn: The Blessing of a Tree’s Curse

Nick Walker: Liberating Ourselves From The Pathology Paradigm

Phyllis Light: The Pursuit of Happiness & Well-Being

Dave Meesters: Absinthe & Other Botanical Spirits

Natasha Clarke: Locavore Herbalism

Paul Bergner: Going Deeper to Get The Gift

Jim McDonald: Putting Ideas Into Practice

Valerie CamachoThe Radical Possibilities of Kitchen Medicine

w/Carolina Valder:

Jesse Wolf Hardin:An Herbalist’s Code of Honor

Guido Masé: Connecting The Ecologies: The Healing Relationship

Kiva Rose Hardin: Mythopoeia: Flora, Story, & Culture

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As this Compendium so well demonstrates, our treasured Plant Healer authors are among the deepest thinking teachers, healers, conservationists, growers, and artists, and visionaries of our time. Sections on herbal traditions contribute to our evolving story, radical herbalism and diversity address issues vital to the survival of folk herbalism, and topics like constitutions, actions, cultivation, and botany, keep the project rooted in practical tools and usable techniques. Here is an opportunity to be entertained and enriched, while learning more about healing not only our bodies and spirits, but our culture and the land.